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The development of this website started in 2004, and the site went public in 2007, with the purpose of being a sane voice '''in defense of the message''' of William Branham. | The development of this website started in 2004, and the site went public in 2007, with the purpose of being a sane voice '''in defense of the message''' of William Branham. | ||
We left the message church we had attended for 37 years after it turned out that the pastor of the church had covered up the sexual abuse of a minor. The majority of the congregation also left within a month after our leaving and a new church started up. It did not differ doctrinally from the church we left, yet the pastor believed all those who left were apostate. The most problematic issue was the fact that not a single message minister stood up publicly against the | We left the message church we had attended for 37 years after it turned out that the pastor of the church had covered up the sexual abuse of a minor. The majority of the congregation also left within a month after our leaving and a new church started up. It did not differ doctrinally from the church we left, yet the pastor from our former church believed all those who left were apostate. '''The most problematic issue was the fact that not a single message minister stood up publicly against the terrible sin of our former pastor.''' | ||
How could this be? '''Wasn't the purpose of the message to create a pure bride that could stand above sin and the world?''' We began to think that the message had somehow been perverted by the ministers of the message. To determine whether this was the case, we went to the very foundation of our faith and started examining what we believed. We asked ourselves these two questions: | How could this be? '''Wasn't the purpose of the message to create a pure bride that could stand above sin and the world?''' We began to think that the message had somehow been perverted by the ministers of the message. To determine whether this was the case, we went to the very foundation of our faith and started examining what we believed. We asked ourselves these two questions: | ||
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#Was there a fundamental problem with the message itself? | #Was there a fundamental problem with the message itself? | ||
And so the purpose of this website changed to become a source of [[Why does this website exist?| objective, verifiable information on William Branham]] and [[List of Issues with the Message|to detail the research that resulted from our questions]] about the message. | |||
===Can we trust the Bible?=== | ===Can we trust the Bible?=== | ||